For all of you picture-book-purchasers and readers, here is a holiday list to help you with your shopping. Happy Reading!
For all of you picture-book-purchasers and readers, here is a holiday list to help you with your shopping. Happy Reading!
We hit the road again this fall, this time to Williamstown, Massachusetts, to visit the Williamstown Elementary School! Lola came along, of course, but this time she had to share the backseat with the newest member of the crew: Wren Mahala Rose Devlin! Lola was convinced to share, and we made it safe and sound… Continue Reading
I’ve just spent three wonderful days in Camden, Maine, reading and talking with kids at the Camden-Rockport Middle School. What a great group of kids! We talked about seals and selkies, and favorite books, and how long you can hold your breath underwater compared to a seal…and the kids wrote original Selkies Myths, which was… Continue Reading
Here’s an article that I wrote about vacationing by bookstore – what a great way to see America! http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-different-kind-of-book-tour-1419635258 Continue Reading
One thing we discovered this summer traveling across America with “Lost Children of the Far Islands” – this country is full of small-and-amazing towns. What a treat to have been able to sample a few of them! Here’s a link to an article that I wrote for the Charlotte (VT) News in October about the… Continue Reading
September is here, with its breezes and blue skies and back-to-school energy. It’s good to be home. It’s good to finally unpack the car, and it’s so, so good to look at my new pile of must-read books! What an amazing trip we had. Thirteen States, nine bookstore visits, and countless new and old friends.… Continue Reading
We started this trip in Boulder, Colorado, and now, 5,000 miles later, we are back where it all began: Vermont. This is a homecoming for us, because my entire family is gathered for a summer visit (here are the various nieces and nephew, ages 1-17), and because we are finally reunited with the fabulous Lola, but… Continue Reading
We rolled into Asheville, North Carolina, in the late afternoon. We knew as soon as we saw this sign hanging on the wall at a local bakery that we were going to love Asheville, and we were right! Honestly, if you are a bookworm, you want to live in Asheville. If you are a bookstore, you want… Continue Reading
Place: Oxford, Mississippi – Bookstore: Square Books, x THREE! Mr. Faulkner’s House – it was closed, so we just pressed our noses up to the windows. We knew that Oxford, Mississippi would be a book town – home of William Faulkner, Larry Brown, and more recently, Beth Ann Fennelly and Ace Aktins, this town is a mecca for great writing. And… Continue Reading
Arkansas! Although this was not an official Indie Bookstore Roadtrip stop, I thought I’d put up some photos anyway – Arkansas was so beautiful that it would be a shame not to share… First of all, Jack Daniels,also known as JD, also known as dog-of-Neta, our wonderful hostess (along with her partner, Cecil) in Arkansas.… Continue Reading